Tyler Hawkins articles - 121 total
Lessons from The Clean Coder
I read The Clean Coder by Robert C. Martin back in 2022, and I remember feeling like it was...
The Value of Finishing
“The value of the thing is found in finishing the thing.” This is the advice I like to give about...
Lessons from A Philosophy of Software Design
I recently finished reading A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. If you enjoyed Clean...
Productivity and Organization Tips for Software Engineers
I’ve been a software engineer for a little over a decade now, and I like to think I’m a pretty...
Heroku for ChatOps: Start and Monitor Deployments from Slack
In our last two articles, we explored how to configure CI/CD for Heroku using Heroku pipelines. When...
Going with the Flow for CI/CD: Heroku Flow with Gitflow
In the previous article in this series, we looked at how we could automate deploys to Heroku using...
How I Finally Got All My CI/CD in One Place: Getting my CI/CD act together with Heroku Flow
The Heroku team has long been an advocate of CI/CD. Their platform integrates with many third-party...
Deploying Heroku Apps to Staging and Production Environments with GitLab CI/CD
In a previous article, we explored how to automate deployments to Heroku using GitLab CI/CD. That...
Deploying to Heroku with GitLab CI/CD
Good software engineering teams commit frequently and deploy frequently. Those are some of the main...
Accessibility Audit Prioritization Levels
As accessibility experts, we often perform accessibility audits on web content and then send a punch...
Unblock Your Software Engineers with Unblocked
Developers spend weeks or even months onboarding at a new company. Getting up to speed in a new...
Build Quicker with Zipper: Building a Ping Pong Ranking App using TypeScript functions
Seasoned software engineers long for the good old days when web development was simple. You just...
How I Migrated Our React Codebase from Flow to PropTypes
Recently I migrated a substantial codebase from using Flow types to using PropTypes. I’ve chronicled...
How I Conduct an Accessibility Audit
I’ve spent the greater part of my career thus far as a frontend software engineer with an emphasis on...
Using Render Log Streams to Log to Papertrail
The console.log function — the poor man’s debugger — is every JavaScript developer’s best friend. We...
JavaScript Dependency Management with npm and Yarn
Keeping your JavaScript dependencies up to date is important. In companies that have dozens (or...
What I Want My Manager to Know About Performance Feedback: An open letter from an individual contributor to managers everywhere
I’ve had 17 managers at 4 companies over the last 9 years. That’s a lot of manager turnover. With...
Hacking the Hackathon
Developers love to hack, but software engineering as a profession can actually be quite mundane. We...
A Beginner’s Guide to ESLint
Most frontend developers use ESLint for linting their JavaScript. ESLint is a static analysis checker...
How ChatGPT Will Help Content Creators Write Opinion Pieces More Easily
As a content creator, you know that writing opinion pieces can be a challenging but rewarding task....
Create Dynamic Code Review Checklists with CodeSee Code Automation
I’ve been a longtime advocate of pull request templates. These templates allow you to provide...
Three Ways to Scale Your Apps with Render
When your app is experiencing high traffic or utilization, you need to scale your service to handle...
Getting Rid of QA Engineers is a Mistake
I've noticed a growing trend in software companies over the last few years in which upper management...
Recursion vs. Loops in JavaScript
Recursion is the nemesis of every developer, only matched in power by its friend, regular...
Tools and Integrations to Significantly Improve Code Review in GitHub
As software engineers, we love to automate. Yet code review is often a fairly manual process that...
The Essential Web3 Tools and Technologies Developers Must Know
Web3 is the next iteration of the web. As opposed to Web1, which consisted of static web pages, and...
How to Build a Crowdfunding Web3 Dapp – Let's Buy Twitter!
For the last several months, the tech world has been abuzz with the news that Elon Musk is buying...
ESLint Warnings Are an Anti-Pattern
ESLint offers three settings for any given rule: error, warn, and off. The error setting will make...
7 Ways to Dramatically Reduce Your Time in Code Review
Code reviews can be painful. Software engineers often complain that the review process is slow,...
Using Insomnia to Upgrade Dependencies — with Confidence
Always keep your dependencies up to date. When you don’t upgrade, you miss out on bug fixes, security...